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A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs. (R, 91 min.)
7:00 PM
Staff Picks 2026 @ Moxie Cinema
Every month a member of the Moxie staff picks a film that impacted their lives and we put it up on the big screen. The Staff Picks series is Free for Members.
June's pick was made by Ezra Farrar.
I love how Hedwig and The Angry Inch is queerly tantalizing and unapologetically morose. I find this movie to be So glam and So punk, and soundtrack of Hedwig’s journey resonated with me while in the depths of discovering my gender identity and self-confidence. Read Ezra's full Q & A here.
With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll. [Criterion]
Starring: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Michael Pitt
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Genre(s): Comedy, Musical, Drama
"Clever, funny, wildly innovative."
— Stephen Holden, New York Times
"It's all just eye-popping amazing."
— Bruce Kirkland, Jam! Movies
"A deeply rich, incredibly authentic musical."
— Richard Propes, TheIndependentCritic.com
"This is rock opera at its most vibrant, melodic and meaningful."
— Paula Nechak, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"One of the few modern movie musicals that deserves to stand alongside the classics of the genre."
— Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
"Not only works brilliantly as a musical, but also features some of the best rock songs ever written for the theatrical stage."
— Ken Fox, TV Guide
"One of the most delightful surprises of 2001, and it has lost none of its charm or its surprising power in the intervening years."
— Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress
"Thanks to Mitchell's electrifying work in front of and behind the camera, you'll find yourself falling in love with this rock odyssey."
— Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News
"'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' is an important cultural touchstone for the LGBT community and a thrilling discovery for everyone."
— Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch" is a top-notch rock and roll musical along the lines of Moulin Rouge and Rocky Horror Picture Show."
— Robert Roten, Laramie Movie Scope
"As she struts her stuff onstage, Hedwig blossoms into one of the most outrageously compassionate, big-hearted movies of the year."
— Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press
"The rock musical is created anew with John Cameron Mitchell's dynamic, fearlessly individual vision and Stephen Trask's perfectly evocative music and lyrics."
— Laura Clifford, Reeling Reviews
"It's Rocky Horror for a new millennium; a post-punk odyssey of love and longing filled with wit and surprisingly poignant observations on the human condition."
— Sara Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com
"Mitchell's performance as Hedwig remains one of the best of modern times -- the character is by turns sexy, scary, outrageous, obnoxious, pitiable and vulnerable -- and it anchors a movie that landed on my list of the 10 best films of the 2000s."
— Matt Brunson, Film Frenzy
